Recipe editor

Simmer Pro recipes use the same structure as posts and pages in WordPress. Recipes with this plugin include some familiar WordPress inputs and key functionality Simmer Pro creates for the recipe custom post type (CPT) in WordPress.

Title, Recipe permalink

All recipes in Simmer Pro follow a semantic web address structure to make navigation of any library of recipes on WordPress easy for both publishers and customers alike. The default structure is /recipes/recipe but you can also change this to a customized formatting of your product, business, or organization.

For example, /cookbook/recipe or /baking/recipe if your blog is specific to one type of recipe.

Description

Descriptions in Simmer Pro enable all WordPress editor controls for content inside your recipes. Use this area to include affiliate links highlighting specific providers, add a video demonstration of your recipe, any WordPress shortcode, or other advanced markup to make individual recipes unique. Websites selling eCommerce can also use the description area to embed promotions of specific products in your online store.

Ingredients

Ingredients and instructions both use a simple items API to dynamically output recipe data.

Use the Settings for Ingredients Heading to change the title displayed above your ingredients list.

Choose an unordered or ordered list.

Sub-headings easily create groups of ingredients in a single recipe.

Instructions

Uses Items API to dynamically output and calculate order and sub-headings.

To copy and paste large blocks of pre-written recipes into Simmer Pro, use the bulk add tool for instructions or ingredients.

Categories

Simmer Pro Recipe categories are completely customizable

Build groups of categories and sub-categories.

This system allows custom taxonomies for a modular design for your recipe library.

Your blog or website’s category address can be found in Settings > Simmer in your WordPress admin.

The default category address structure is yoursite.com/recipes/category/name/, or another example with actual category naming would be: yourname.com/recipes/category/vegan/

Use your website’s custom addresses for recipes in your navigation. In your WordPress admin go to the Customizer then Menus. You can add links for recipe categories or your whole recipe library.

You can also feature the category for recipes embedded in blog posts. In these recipe cards, the category link will go to the above library address structure. Use these links to get your visitors more of the exact type of recipes they were already searching for when they found your recipe.

Recipe Information

Prep Time

Cook Time

Total Time

Yield

Cuisine

Source

Nutrition

The nutrition section of recipes lets creators manually enter precise nutrition data for their recipes. No automated or unreliable nutrition software is added to this feature by default. This aspect allows complete control of micro and macro nutritents posted with your recipes, in grams and miligrams.

Measurements include:

Single Serving Size

Total Servings

Cooking Method (Frying, Steaming, Boiling, Baking, Sauteeing)

Calories

Sodium

Protein

Unsaturated Fat

Total Carbohydrate

Total Fat

Trans Fat

Sugar

Added Sugar

Dietary Fiber

Saturated Fat

Cholesterol

Front-end developers can use the individual helper classes for CSS and front-end control of each nutrition measurement and data point. WordPress developers can use these classes to code custom interfaces for recipe nutrition.

Featured image

Choose an image to represent your recipe. This image is used by search technology like Google to display a preview of your recipe inside search results.

More recipe features

Recipe excerpts

Used in recipe card design for recipes embedded with shortcodes.

Does not allow HTML, but the complete description of each recipe (see above) allows complete HTML and oEmbeds like YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and more.

Author

Assign individual authors to recipes.

Use author pages to connect multiple recipes by the same author (requires custom code).

Hide this field with a simple line of CSS in the settings of your theme’s WordPress Customizer: .simmer-recipe-author { display: none; }